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Israeli social justice protesters fight with police Saturday during a Tel Aviv demonstration.
Police arrested 89 demonstrators after more than 6,500 people converged around Tel Aviv's Habima Square on Saturday night to protest the arrest a day earlier of activist leader Daphni Leef, Israeli media reported.
About 20 demonstrators were arrested after breaking into branches of three banks, Haaretz newspaper of Tel Aviv reported. Windows at two other banks were shattered, it said.
A large police contingent was stationed in the city center starting Friday afternoon in anticipation of the Saturday demonstration, which police said was illegal and unlicensed, Haaretz said.
Chanting "Emergency protest! Returning power to the people," demonstrators confronted police Saturday, Haaretz said.
Activists told Haaretz one protester was arrested by an undercover police officer when he entered an abandoned building that the police were using as a staging area.
The Times of Israel said Leef and 12 other protesters had been released Friday night but police planned to press charges. Earlier Friday evening, officers dragged Leef into a police vehicle and protesters surrounded it, preventing it from driving away for nearly an hour, the Times said.
Police said officers made the Friday arrests because demonstrators trying to pitch tents in an effort to revive last summer’s protest movement against rising housing and food prices assaulted and abused them, the Times reported.
“They began attacking inspectors and officers, swearing, spitting and hurling objects at them,” read the statement obtained by the Times. Police would not authorize “illegal protests that endanger the public,” it said.
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I was wondering where the OWS crowd went.
The RED HEAD must have taken the day off. I hope it is with pay. What is the DNC policy on that? Toasty too.
Hmmmm, Flyesity and the "gang" are probably at a DNC's lecture on how to respond if Mr. Obama's Mandated Universal Health Care Reform legislation is deemed UNCONSTITUTIONAL by SCOTUS on Monday. They have to receive special instructions on how to "present" their arguments on social media sites and on the big T.V. when it fails.
Gee, I wonder why there were no "protests" on Main Street concerning the consumer prices on everything. I really feel good though....price of gas at a station three blocks from my home just went down from $ 4.38.9/gal last month to $ 3.99.9/gal yesterday. With that savings.....maybe I can go buy some chicken for dinner instead of just potatoes.
Ido, you could turn off your computer to save on the electric bill....and don't knock potatoes. It was a Democrat that promised a chicken if every pot on Sunday. Up to that time, people were lucky to get potato soup.
Once again...in case you forgot, that depression was brought on by NO GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION OF WALL STREET!!!. The fix for that was KILLED by Ronald Rayguns and the dumb asses that WE idiots voted for.
OWS people are for US!!!! You should listen to what THEY are saying and quit listening to the power mongers that just want to steal as much as they can until the great collapse, THEY created, comes.
If you are bitching about the price of gas, do you really think that a CEO that USES investor money...your money...to bankrupt a country is worth A MILLION dollars a month? His money...he can do what he wants...our money, and he should not make more that 5 times the lowest paid employee.
NO SOB is worth a million dollars a month. Not with my retirement fund...
Occupiers went the way of the DODO.
You are delusional, you don't think as things get worse that the protests won't get bigger all over the world? No one is creating the millions of jobs we need, people are trying to just hang on with no hope in sight.
The Revolution will not be televised!
No hope from either party.
You guys embarrassed the Leader. The DNC shut you down.
Real smart Brett. Do you really think your protesting makes things better? Everyone knows things are bad and getting worse. I guess you think rioting and vandalism make it better.
So who is delusional?
Steve, I would say that if the POS that are robbing the world blind do not get the message, then when the collapse happens, we will cut off their heads.
These Wall Street POS need to read up on the French Revolution. AND if you think I am nuts, read this link. YOU "Mr. I am not delusional" may start to cry....that is if you care. Hell, you may even go out and...dare I say...protest?
http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/
If they were Palestinians or even Israeli Arabs doing the same thing the story owuld be about the body count. You all know it is true
a year ago i said the muslim brotherhood would take over egypt, some friend on face book told me i was wrong , but what made her mad was the fact that time and again obama has helped pave the way for this to happen. this is not the start of peace in the world but the real start of a holy war that will drag the whole world to war
r w wade, this is an article about Israel, not Egypt. If you want to make a comment on a topic a little more related to Israel, you might have pointed out that President Bush helped pave the way for Hamas to win free Palestinian elections.
In addition, Obama is the start of a holy war in the region by supporting democracy in Egypt???? Wow, you lack any understanding of the long history of the region. As much as I despise President Bush's approach to peace in the middle east, I would never claim that the "real start" of a holy war was caused by either Bush or Obama. I wish rightwingnuts would come to the table with legitimate criticisms and not this continuous nonsense.
R U: I just knew it wouldn't take long for the Reich Wing crazies to somehow blame this on Obama. And while you're at it, don't forget to indict him for the drought in the South West as well as the social turmoil in Greece. You nitwits will never change and make even a passing attempt at being objective.
More American aid is needed. LOL.
You mean the billions we give them every year for free is not enough?
Correction: The billions that we gave to Hosni Mubarak and his family....None of it made it to the Egyptian people..while Mubarak's family coiffers overflow..swiss bank accounts and all...one of his sons is allegedly a billionaire already...Dont assume that the money US pays makes its way to the people who could really use it..Much like in American society.
and it wasnt for free...The US dollars ensured that the Israeli treaty was intact and as a way of doing that...Mubarak ensured 30 years of emergency law. people were oppressed and in fear with no hope of productive lives and prosperity..so for someone who lives on free soil that touts freedom and democracy..Shouldnt that fact get your dander up? Just wondering...
Police authorization is required to protest in "Israel". Interesting definition of free speech.
Well, you also need "police authorization" to protest in the United States. Look at what happened in Chicago at the NATO Summit in May. The needed permits to protest in Chicago. Same thing for Occupy Wall Street in NYC.
Israel does not have the same Constitution as the USA, nor do its citizens share the same rights as US citizens. Try your 'free speech' in most other countries around the world and you will necessarily find yourself afoul of the authorities. Even posting your displeasure with the government of many countries, however justified, may even bring them to your door in the middle of the night. Your right to free speech is only protected in the USA.
such a small indicident in Israel captivates media attention. The killings of muslims by muslims daily in Syria is barely entertaining to the readers. not a single muslim is protesting that, unless somebody "insults" islam or murders a muslim
In fact Muslims are begging for intervention in Syria.
middimar - What is your point about this article? There are lots of issues in Israel that is hidden from the media because the media is ran by..... yep you guessed it. Anything to make Israel look good the media does. Only little, small news will leak out here and there just to make us assured that Israel is alive and strong. Our tax money at work huh....
Oh, yes, the media is run by Jews. That's why MSNBC describes Islamic terrorists as "militants," when they keep blowing up Nigerian churches. And that's why we are always seeing photos of screaming, wailing Arabs and none of mourning Jews after attacks. And that's why there were three, count 'em three, movies and miniseries about the Kennedys, and not one of them mentioned that Bobby was killed by a Palestinian terrorist.
Israel can stick itself in the toilet and pull the flush lever. WHO CARES!
Not a very Christian attitude, all men or brothers and such. I am not great fan of Israel policies in general, but they do seem like a small source of stability in the Middle East.
I am baffled - can someone explain why we are always so concerned with a country that wrongfully displaced another country (with the help of us and the British of course) and has a grand total of 8 million people?
Why - because the media and politics of our own country is dominated by people of that country's religion.
"We" (LOL) are concerned because Jehovah, whom Christians and Jews believe in, has deserted them (if SheHeIt ever existed at all, God/Allah is the original, genocidal war criminal). Take the USA. The "In God We Trust"motto on coins. You see believers begging for the Dept of Homeland Insecurity to disband and airport security turned over to God?
Religion! Our modern civilization will be destroyed before sensible humans become the majority.
Andres, the Zionists did not displace the Arabs, they bought their land, going back to the late 19th century. You can read all about it in James Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses," where Leopold Bloom, the Dublin Jew, is helping buy land in Palestine. The Israelis then acquired further holdings when they were used as a base to attack them three times.
I guess that is one way to piss off a Jew. Just ask them to lay more money out.
Keep it up, Jew baiters...because you are proving why Israel is needed.
Hmmm that’s weird, this article seems to be implying that Israel (like any other nation) has social problems, and that amazingly enough not all of its social problems involve Arabs. Wow that’s a hell of a lot different to the picture of a secular, democratic utopia that I get given to me often by the pro-Israel crowed. Hmm blinded by their bias I suppose
Goodness, Los, of COURSE Israel has social problems...and they are allowed to protest against them. But Israel's supporters are constantly trying to defend it against vicious, venomous attacks.
Lol oh Cassandra I’m well aware they have problems but like I said many on the Pro-Israel side make the country out to be this utopia where everything is great and so on. So rest assured I’m not criticising Israel just its many blind supporters who refuse to admit that it’s a nation like any other and that not all its problems are the result of Palestinians
But Israel's enemies often make its problems seem like awful outrages...arresting protesters, for instance.
Oh no doubt Cassandra, many a pro-Palestinian supporter and Israeli critique make out that the whole region was/would be a utopia if it wasn’t for Israel. So considering how fanatical the supporters of both sides can be, I’d have to wonder what hope either side has for a lasting peace.
The big bang babies from the beginning to the end, the Lord is going to send the alien scientist to dismantle the schlemiel farms, cause the self righteous think they are the only ones.......... God help us all.
Does it really really matter all that @!$%#ty, @!$%#ty shatter about human intelligence? At the end of the day we'll all tickle the rocks? You can't keep that ticker ticking forever even if you think you are special and have all the money in the world!! Don't forget to get some cheese if they let us get in line because some got to get more. Solemn
Funny how people protesting for 'peace' are destroying property and being violent.
Kind of makes you like like a hypocritical idiot...
If that's how the zionist government treats their own people when they disagree with them, then it becomes clear how they (zionist government) truly deal with a people (Palestinians) different from them and in their (zoinist government) view are beneath them...
The only democracy in the middle east!
Its good to know there are at least a couple thousand people with heads on their shoulders in isreal.